Grande Sertão: veredas: o livro como arte

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Grande Sertão: Veredas, novel by the Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa from Minas Gerais, develops around the idea of the sertão. Explored in many facets in the writer’s book, the sertão presents itself with uniqueness as a big discursive relation, bringing up questions related to the existence and human’s condition in the world. In Grande Sertão: Veredas, words escape their habitual meanings and get a poetic aurea which deeply touches and engages the reader, because it presents a space narrated with very plasticity and sensorial suggestions capable of evoking a series of visual boards to those who read it. Under this assumption, mainly through the analysis of the book language – a poetic transfiguration of sertanejo speaking – this current dissertation sought to discuss the sertão, considering the form how the fictionality approximates to the artistic field. Thus, the current research prioritized reading the book as a rupture with the typical narration of the so-called regionalist literary current, undertaking an analysis that sought not only to understand the space, but above all, to discuss and reframe the sertão place. For the development of this work, we resumed some studies about the sertão, such as the researches by AGRÓ, Ettore Finazzi (2001); AMADO, Janaina (1995); BOLLE, Willi (2004); TELES, Gilberto Mendonça; BARROSO, Gustavo e BRANDÃO, Luis Alberto (2013). For the literature discussion, we resorted to CANDIDO, Antonio (1964); DELEUZE, Gilles e GUATTARI, Félix (1995-1997); IVO, Isnara Pereira (2012), among others. We bring the Rosa’s writing close to the Candido Portinari’s canvases, therefore, we turned to the studies of REBELLO, Ivana Ferrante et OLIVA, Osmar Pereira (2018) e PAULINO, Sibele e SOETHE, Paulo Astor (2018). With a close dialogue with poetics and other fields of knowledge, it was concluded that, through the artistic effect printed in the book, since the title, the Rosa’s sertão cannot be imprisoned by an intellectual faculty or a methodology, because due to its art character, it opens up to a plurality of meanings.